real genius or real mistake?

By lani 19 Nov 2001

i will shamelessly admit that half my drive to pursue the sciences came from watching ‘real genius’ one too many times as a child. and that the true allure of being a chem major had to be the liquid nitrogen…or the dry ice…or the ether…or the absolute ethanol…anyway, all i ever wanted was to make fun and almost useless things (i still do…my sister and i decided yesterday to try to make a motion sensitive alarm clock that will run away when you try to hit it for her science project). but now the opportunity is budding, and i am scared out of my mind. i’m planning on moving in with three people from the center. our stats will be: 3 chemists, 1 engineer; 50% PhDs. The guys already tried bidding for an EEG on ebay. Thank god they were out-bid. I’m going to wake up one day in restraints with electrodes attached to my newly shorn head. i am scared, yet strangely turned on.

Tags: geeks